Middlesbrough Art Week is the North East’s largest visual art festival, with a free public programme of art exhibitions, screenings, performances, workshops, talks and public works. Established in 2017 as The Middlesbrough Art Weekender, it has grown each year and now celebrates a 10 day programme which reimagines Middlesbrough’s industrial past through an artistic takeover of the town. Delivered by the artist-led team of The Auxiliary and their ever expanding network of artists, programme collaborators, producers, coordinators & wide reaching partnerships, MAW supports artist ecologies in the north east, connecting artistic practice and ideas with like-minded peers nationally and internationally, and is committed to practice and principles of fair work and social justice.